"French mathmetician and philosopher Pascal once said: 'Let each man examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with the past and the future. We scarcely ever thing of the present, and when we think of it, it is only to take light from it to arrange the future...So we never live, but we hope to live; and, as we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.'
In my darkest and unhappiest days, I noticed that most of the time, when I was stressed out, worried, or unhappy, I was in the past or future-not in the moment. I also noticed that if I brought my attention back to the present, the pain, the stress, the worry, and the unhappiness disappeared almost immediately."
- author and personal growth counselor, Robert Scheinfild
Whenever I am stressed or unhappy because of worry about the future, or dwelling on guilt from the past, I pray that I may be reminded to return to living in the now.
This makes so much sence, I know this, it is always the same with me, "If only I could change the past, what a mess!"....."I will do much better tomorrow...next week..next year"...
the truth as i see it is that we never have tomorrow because it always becomes today so I must do better today.....I just need to be reminded of this stuff all the time, cos my alcoholic brain has an overactive recycle bin...
